The Devotional
Comment: A few days back I said that we would
look at the Gospel of John from one Characteristic of God, (Love) to isolate
just this one Characteristic might be idolatry for some of us so I believe that
we ought to ramp it up a bit and consider as many of God Characteristics as
possible. Basically there are 10, but there are many, about 31 other attributes
of God that fulfil or help us as His Children to understand the Awesomeness of
God who is Spirit. If we are going to worship God, we must do so in the Spirit,
a simple but demanding Truth from the lips of Jesus the Messiah. “But
the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the
father in the spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.
This study
of God’s Character is from the teaching of one of the elders of our church, I have
incorporated his message in my words into these devotionals, I hope you will
find the blessing that I received as I am being taught.
Devotional: John 1:1-4 – Is it possible to see
some of the Character of God in these verses? As His children the answer is emphatic
“YES” God can be seen in these verses as “Eternal” as “In the beginning God”
before anything existed, God did and along with His existence was His Word an
attribute of God’s Veracity (Truth) is visible. Also we can detect His
Omnipotence (Power) in “all things were made by Him and without Him nothing was
made that was made.
If we are
honest we can see that God is Incomprehensible (He cannot be totally
understood) as “And in Him was life, and the life was the light of men”
Incomprehensible is an attribute of God’s Omniscience, thus God is not totally
understood and He is therefore “unsearchable”. Yet because God is Love, He is
self-revealing, thus He is condescending or transcendent, He alone provides the
understanding of Him to His finite Creation, which is more than adequate for
our mind to comprehend. See Job 9:10; 37:22-23 and Psalm 113:1-9.
In the
beginning is a statement of God’s Eternality, He alone is infinite, in Solomon’s
prayer and dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem, Solomon speaks these words to
God – 1 Kings 8:27 “But will God indeed dwell on earth? Behold, heaven and the
heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have
built”. So in conclusion this morning we can see that the Light that shines in
the darkness, is the revealing Light of God’s Love. The Love of God is perfect
LIGHT.
God’s Light “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down One’s
life for His friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you”.
John 15:13-14. Are you God’s friend today?
God cannot
be seen, but through His Light we can see His love – 1 John 4:7-19.
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